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• Birmingham Symphony Orchestra names Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla as musical director

  05-02-2016 23:58
  
  Appointment of the 29-year-old conductor will make the CBSO the only UK orchestra to be led by a woman
  
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• ‘I Think That Discomfort Is a Really Positive Place for Us All to Be In’: Keith J. Varadi on His New Show, Facebook, and Gambling

  05-02-2016 22:58 via artnews.com
  This Saturday, the artist and curator Keith J. Varadi opens “Free Wi-Fi, Comedy” at Night Gallery in his hometown of Los Angeles. The centerpiece of the show is a first for Varadi: a film. The 14-minute movie starts at Good … Read More
  
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• Like father, like son: Piotrovsky to head Hermitage through 2020

  05-02-2016 22:00
  
  Russia’s Culture Ministry took to Instagram to announce that it has extended the contract of Mikhail Piotrovsky, the general director of the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, for another four years. The post, hashtagged Hermitage (#эрмитаж), expressed congratulations to the museum and wishes for “many major exhibitions and new projects”. By 2020, Piotrovsky, who is 71, will have presided over one of the world’s greatest mu
  
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• Here Is the New Eckhaus Latta Video for the Hammer Museum ‘Made in L.A.’ Biennial

  05-02-2016 21:54 via artnews.com
  It’s Friday afternoon and you deserve to wind down with this new video created by the fashion label Eckhaus Latta alongside Alexa Karolinski for the forthcoming Hammer Museum Biennial titled “Made in L.A. 2016: a, the, though, only.”The video–which doubles … Read More
  
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• Mexico City’s Lulu Expands

  05-02-2016 21:18 via artnews.com
  Since opening in 2013, the enterprising Mexico City project space named Lulu has operated out of an immaculate white cube within the studio of the artist Martin Soto Climent, who started and runs the venture with curator Chris Sharp. Despite measuring … Read More
  
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• Double Positive: Carter Ratcliff on Robert Ryman’s Meditative Monochromes, in 1971

  05-02-2016 20:43 via artnews.com
  In honor of a survey of his paintings at the Dia Art Foundation in New York, below is a 1971 essay about Robert Ryman’s white-on-white paintings. Written by Carter Ratcliff, the essay questions how Ryman’s work can be categorized. Are … Read More
  
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• Albert Oehlen: 'There's something hysterical about magenta'

  05-02-2016 20:08
  
  Fuelled by beer and speed, Albert Oehlen ran riot through the Berlin art world. He made intentionally bad paintings, worked only in grey, and was even anti-art altogether. Now’s he’s living the outdoors life in Switzerland – so why do his trees still look psychopathic?Albert Oehlen has filled the Gagosian Gallery in Mayfair with big paintings of trees. Oehlen’s trees are black, skeletal and deformed-looking, their thin curving branches extending beyond blocks of smeared m
  
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• Rizvan Rahman: Convicted art fraudster goes straight with his own exhibition

  05-02-2016 20:05
  
  Rahman, who says he is influenced by Lucian Freud, was jailed for selling fake paintings of postwar British artists
  
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• Habitat: Mika Horibuchi

  05-02-2016 19:57 via artnews.com
  Habitat is a weekly series that visits with artists in their workspaces.This week’s studio: Mika Horibuchi; Ukrainian Village, Chicago. “Do you see a rabbit or a duck?” Mika Horibuchi asked as we looked a simple drawing that once appeared in a German humor … Read More
  
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• Issue Project Room’s 2016 Artists-In-Residence Will Be Keith Connolly and Cecilia Corrigan

  05-02-2016 19:49 via artnews.com
  Today, Brooklyn’s Issue Project Room announced the two recipients of their 2016 artists-in-residence program: Keith Connolly and Cecilia Corrigan, both based in New York. The program enlists artists to create time-based works with the support of the institution.Connolly is a founding … Read More
  
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• Aztec twist for Absolut Art Bar

  05-02-2016 19:11
  
  Absolut Art Bars seem to pop up everywhere these days. The latest incarnation, courtesy of the Mexican artist duo Sangree, neatly mixes quirky ancient and modern aspects. This new bar, entitled Tenochtitlan, is on display at the Material Art Fair, Mexico City (Expo Reforma, until 6 February). Sangree, otherwise known as René Godínez Pozas and Carlos Lara, have taken over an abandoned building with their homage to the ancient Aztec city of Tenochtitlan, transporting 21st-centur
  
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• By planes, personal escorts and automobiles, Frida Kahlo’s work comes to Russia

  05-02-2016 18:42
  
  Russia’s first-ever Frida Kahlo retrospective has opened in St Petersburg at billionaire Viktor Vekselberg’s private Faberge Museum. And the Russian crowds have come out in force to see the work of the Mexican artist, wife of Diego Rivera and one-time lover of the Bolshevik revolutionary Leon Trotsky installed in the opulent ballroom of the former tsarist Shuvalov Palace.
  Despite Kahlo’s Leftist leanings, her paintings had never been seen in Soviet Russia. Vladimir Voronchenko,
  
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• Knoedler asked forensic conservator to revise ‘negative’ report

  05-02-2016 17:59
  
  The Knoedler gallery asked the forensic conservator James Martin of Orion Analytical to alter his report on two works purportedly by Robert Motherwell before a meeting with the Dedalus Foundation to discuss their authenticity, Martin testified on Thursday in a New York court. Knoedler had commissioned Martin to analyse the paintings after Dedalus, which maintains the Motherwell catalogue raisonné, told then-director Ann Freedman the paintings the gallery was handling were fake.
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• This virtual reality sex game has been put on hold due to high demand

  05-02-2016 17:57
  
  Not a bad situation for VirtuaDolls to be in
  
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• Turner on acid, and Da Vinci runs like clockwork – the week in art

  05-02-2016 16:56
  
  JWM Turner expands his consciousness, Leonardo shows off his blueprints and Bradford loses out bigtime to London – all in your weekly art dispatchImpressionism: Capturing Life
  The impulsive eyes of the impressionists chased the flow and dance of modern life in city streets and steam-filled stations. They showed the world its own reflection. This exhibition explores their portrayal of reality with loans from the Tate, National Gallery and other British collections.
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• Here’s the Artist List for the 2016 Ireland’s Biennial

  05-02-2016 16:46 via artnews.com
  EVA International–Ireland’s Biennial announced the artist list today for its 2016 edition. Titled “Still (the) Barbarians,” this year’s biennial features 57 artists, all of whom focus on the fallout of colonialism in their work. Koyo Kouoh, the founder of Dakar’s … Read More
  
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• Negative humanity: the birth of the digital death mask

  05-02-2016 15:21
  
  The same facial recognition technology that monitors unsuspecting Russian citizens was used to produce this eerie portrait of a Pussy Riot memberIn the 1870s, Cesare Lombroso, an Italian criminologist, conceived the theory of criminal atavism – the belief that lawbreakers were born, not made, and could be distinguished from law-abiding citizens by various physical anomalies such as sloping foreheads, big ears and protruding jaws. To this end, he compiled and published L’Uomo Delinque
  
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• Elisabeth Kley at Canada

  05-02-2016 15:20 via artnews.com
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• ‘Darren Bader: such are promises’ at Sadie Coles HQ

  05-02-2016 15:12 via artnews.com
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• Morning Links: Picasso Sculpture Custody Battle Edition

  05-02-2016 15:07 via artnews.com
  CUSTODY BATTLEThe Picasso sculpture caught in a legal battle between Larry Gagosian and the Qatar royal family (both believe the own it) was to be sold by Gagosian to Leon D. Black, the billionaire financier, art collector, and co-chairman of the board … Read More
  
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• In Court, Experts Say Knoedler Ignored Warnings About Forgeries

  05-02-2016 15:04 via artnews.com
  More expert witnesses testified this week in the trial over a fake Mark Rothko painting in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. Domenico and Eleanore De Sole argue that the Knoedler gallery, and its president Ann Freedman, knowingly sold them the forged … Read More
  
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• Handel and Hendrix duet under one roof

  05-02-2016 14:00
  The neighbouring London homes of two musical greats, the Baroque composer George Frideric Handel and the rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix, have been merged into one museum. The Handel & Hendrix in Mayfair is due to open on 10 February after a £2.4m, two-year restoration.Until recently, the staff of Handel House at 25 Brook Street used Hendrix’s former bedroom as office space. But the museum decided to restore it with the help of his former girlfriend Kathy Etchingham, as well as photo
  
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• How should we support creativity?

  05-02-2016 13:40
  
  We shouldn’t underestimate the need to invest both time and money to ensure great artists of the future succeed Fancy a creative future? Then look no further than 64 Million Artists, a national campaign that wants to unlock the creativity of everyone in Britain. Throughout January it set short daily creative challenges up to 20 minutes long that were “designed to fit into your day and bring it to life, making you more aware of your surroundings, introducing you to new places and peop
  
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• Curator and Assistant Curator

  05-02-2016 13:16
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  Location: Perry Green, Hertfordshire Salary: £32,320 - £35,350 per annumThe Curator will join the Foundation at an exciting time as we enter our next dynamic phase of development following the recent appointment of Director, Godfrey Worsdale, and Head of Henry Moore Collections & Exhibitions, Sebastiano Barassi. This year also sees the opening of our new archive and visitor facilities at Henry Moore Studios & Gardens, Perry Green, East Hertfordshire.The Curator will w
  
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• David Chipperfield hired to transform old brewery in central Berlin

  05-02-2016 13:15
  
  A German collector and medical technology billionaire has hired the British architect David Chipperfield to restore and develop a masterplan for a former brewery turned cultural complex in central Berlin. Hans Georg Näder bought the 19th-century Bötzow Brewery in 2010. The venue already hosts art exhibitions, including one on Neo Rauch (until 15 March). The €250m project, due for completion by 2019, will include a 2,000 sq. m gallery space. “The gallery will be completed as
  
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• Raphael’s drawings to go on show in Oxford and Vienna

  05-02-2016 13:00
  Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum and Vienna’s Albertina have joined forces to co-organise a Raphael exhibition in 2017. The show will feature drawings by Raphael that the Ashmolean acquired in 1842 from the celebrated collection amassed by the painter Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830). The British artist had offered his entire Old Masters drawing collection to the nation on his death, but the British Museum’s trustees baulked at the price—£18,000. A public subscription saved Law
  
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• Damnation, Dante and decadence: why Eugène Delacroix is making a hero’s return

  05-02-2016 13:00
  
  From Van Gogh to Cézanne to Picasso, Delacroix was revered by the very artists who would come to overshadow him. Now his pessimistic vision looks set for critical acclaim once againEugène Delacroix today holds, for many people, a somewhat peripheral place in the pantheon of 19th-century artists. That he was a powerful influence on the likes of Manet, the impressionists and Seurat is taken for granted, but so too is the idea that they went on to outstrip him. For the poet and art cr
  
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• Private collection of Warhols pops up in Oxford

  05-02-2016 12:32
  
  More than 100 works by Andy Warhol will be exhibited for the first time today at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, in Andy Warhol: Works from the Hall Collection (until 15 May).The exhibition is drawn almost in its entirety from the “extraordinary pack of cards” that is the Andrew and Christine Hall collection, says the exhibition’s curator Norman Rosenthal. Spanning more than three decades of Warhol’s output, the exhibition includes early works such as Double One Dollar Bil
  
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• Letters Live: Watch Sir Ian McKellen read a brave and powerful coming-out letter

  05-02-2016 11:36
  
  'These aren't radicals or weirdos, Mama. They are shop clerks and bankers and little old ladies and people who nod and smile to you when you meet them on the bus.'
  
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• Setting My Soul Free by Jennifer Kim

  05-02-2016 00:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When i learnt to let go,
  It was like breaking out through a corned bush,
  It seemed scary and undaring,
  I thought of how the thorns would bruise my skin,
  But then again staying inside the corned bush,
  I felt alone and broken,
  I then thought of the freedom, joy and happiness that was just a corn fence away,
  And in that moment i went through,
  I never felt the pain of the bruises because what drove me was of much more power in the inside
  Than what i felt on the outside and now with all these bruises
  
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